Nabil
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Just as unresolved, formerly subordinated or traumatized individuals can collude with or identify with bullies, so can unresolved, formerly subordinated or traumatized groups of people identify with the supremacy of the state. In both
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“But also because I don’t feel like I was ever actually in. I feel more like, growing up in a conservative, reticent community, I just didn’t know—for lack of example and lack of vocabulary—what I was, what I could be, that I could love women and still be myself.”
― My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
― My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
“was smiling; I think I was kind of pleased. I remember it as a happy moment. New heights in androgyny achieved! But I also instinctively took it as a kind of flirtation.”
― My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
― My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
“Obsession is an accidental haunting, by a person not aware she’s a ghost.”
― Trust Exercise
― Trust Exercise
“As my friend, lesbian artist Harmony Hammond, writes of coming up in the 1960s and ’70s, “to be both a woman and an artist was considered a contradiction of identities.” And now suddenly I have no choice but to face the possibility that this moment is no different”
― My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
― My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
“It is, understandably, considered gauche to describe bisexuality as transitory, almost as gauche as the word “bisexual” itself. Perhaps it would be better to think of bisexuality as queerly universal—stem cells potent with potential. As long as compulsive heteronormativity exists, queer people will pass through bisexuality at some point, however briefly. Some tear through it on a speedboat, heading for a more monosexual harbor, others circle, content, drinking aperitifs in the sun.”
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
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